Overall, from 837 CE onward, larger targets (such as the greater monastic towns Armagh, Glendalough, Kildare, Slane, Clonard, Clonmacnoise, and Lismore) were hit by larger forces than in the early days, while smaller, local churches where there was less to be plundered may have escaped the onslaught. With this new inland focus, forts, farms, and towns now increasingly came under threat, too.
Pushing up the inland waterways of the east midlands, where they soon became a regular sight, instead of their former pin-pricks along the coastlines, the Vikings now seem to have been organised in royal expeditions hailing from Viking Scotland, with chieftains or kings tying together several groups and splurging out on resources to support these missions. The term came to mean a permanent fortified residence after the Norman conquest (OConor p. By the late 10th Century it was being applied to temporary fortified encampments of any type (Flanagan p.60). These ships, probably sailing from the Viking-occupied areas in Scotland, seem to have carried around a healthy 3,000 men in total, who for the first time butted their heads against proper local resistance, a theme that was carried on as a force of southern Uí Néills stood up against the Vikings, too, although less successfully as of them "an uncounted number were slaughtered" ( Annals of Ulster, 837. A Longphort (literally ship-port) was the term originally given to fortified Viking landing-places. All of these reforms certainly had the desired effect, and the state treasury could boast a surplus of 320,000 pounds of gold by the end of Anastasios’ reign. Bygg ut ditt järnvägsspår för att tillgodose dina resenärers behov. The shortfall in the state coffers was made up by revenues from imperial estates and possibly a new tax, the chrysoteleia, which remains of uncertain purpose or application. The tax had to be paid in gold or silver every four years, and its abolition resulted in a popularity boost for the emperor across his empire. His is a story of a boy who was a slave, who became a warlord, and who helped topple an empire. In a popular move in 498 CE, Anastasios abolished the chrysargyron, a tax on business transactions made by anyone from merchants to prostitutes - even beggars were liable. A ship arrived at his masters longphort carrying a man who would alter the course of his destiny and take him under his wing to teach him the ways of the Vikings. Tax collection was reformed and the job given to state officials instead of local collectors. The new emperor reformed the much ailing Byzantine coinage by introducing new and improved coins, notably the large copper follis, 288 of which were worth one gold nomisma, the standard coin against which all others were valued.
Anastasios might have lacked any royal pedigree, but he was not lacking in political and fiscal competence.
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